Some important data points on the Rawalpindi riots:

• Murree Road was among the main sites of violence in Rawalpindi city—in alliance with Raja Bazaar and Lal Kurti

• FIRs were filed for attacks there, but details and names have not surfaced publicly.

• Accounts by historians claim that Pakistani policemen aided mobs, and attackers were identifiable by name and village in those FIRs

https://www.punjabpartition.com/single-post/2019/09/08/the-rape-of-rawalpindi

Article in Daily times by Haroon Mustafa Janjua:

On May 14, 1947, the Viceroy assured Abul Kalam Azad that he would “give complete assurance at least on this one question.” He would see to it that there was no bloodshed and riot. “I am a soldier, not a civilian. Once partition is accepted in principle, I shall issue orders to see that there are no communal disturbances anywhere in the country.” He added that he would adopt the sternest measures to nip the trouble in the bud. “I shall not use even the armed police. I will order the Army to act, and I will use tanks and aeroplanes to suppress anybody who wants to make trouble.”

However, no such thing happened. Millions died. The British troops did not intervene. Even now, a feeling of guilt persists among some British researchers.

Link to article: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/british-army-could-have-prevented-partition-riots-450971/

A Muslim boy who got separated from his family in 1947 and was adopted by a Sikh family in East Punjab finally gets to meet his brothers in West Punjab.

Link to article: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/lost-found-after-77-years-historian-nonica-datta-and-a-pakistani-youtuber-help-reunite-87-year-old-mahinder-singh-gill-of-ferozepur-with-his-family-in-nankana-sahib/

In the book "Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition" by Ritu Menon and Kamala Bhasin, the events in Sargodha and other parts of Punjab are painfully documented with the focus on violence against women and children which became the most tragic and shocking aspect of partition. The idea of "conquering women" by abducting and raping them became the central blood sport of the mob. The writers were unprepared to understand the depravity of what fellow human beings can do to each other. In one of the shocking stories, Charanjit Singh Bhatia, a Sikh patriarch killed his own daughters to save them from being raped.

"He had six daughters, all of them very good looking. He was well-to-do and also had very good relations with his Muslim neighbbors. They told him to give his daughters in marriage to their sons - that way, they would all then be related and…